What is logic?

Can anyone explain this to me?

Yes, this article is about the people having to resort to any means necessary to defend themselves, but it has an underlying issue.

The fact that violence is a pervasive thing, and that even if guns are taken away (as though a law will somehow prevent a criminal from simply making their own guns, since anyone with a small bit of metal-working knowledge can build a gun from scratch), people will find weapons to use.

They will use these things - axes, swords, crossbows, and even bread rolls - to defend themselves and their property, even especially if the police cannot or will not help them.

Criminals don’t pick fights with policemen, do they? Why not? Because they are likely to be arrested or shot, right? So where do they go? To the unarmed civilians on the streets.

How can we fix this? The criminal is not going to obey whever strictures you set upon him, and the only other option is clear.

On this day

60 years ago…

8:15 in the morning…

Colonel Paul Tibbets aboard the Enola Gay...

With a crew of ten and a ten-thousand pound cargo…

Cruising at 26,000 feet…

Weather report had just come - clear with scattered clouds…

8:16 am, and the world’s very first atomic weapon was released over the city of Hiroshima - a city of considerable military importance. It contained the 2nd Army Headquarters, which commanded the defense of all of southern Japan. The city was a communications center, a storage point, and an assembly area for troops.

The plane banks sharply away, and there is just enough time to close the bomb bay doors and warn the crew to brace themselves before a blinding white flash and the energy equivalent to 15,000 tons (that’s thirty million pounds of trinitrotoluene - and a pound of TNT can create quite an explosion) flash-fried much of the city as the terrible toadstool climbed into the sky.